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Pausanias offering sacrifice to the Gods before the Battle of Plataea. In 478 BC, Pausanias was accused of conspiring with the Persians and recalled to Sparta. One allegation was that after capturing Cyprus and Byzantium (478 BC), Pausanias released some of the prisoners of war who were friends and relatives of the king of Persia. Pausanias ...
Pausanias (/ p ɔː ˈ s eɪ n i ə s /; Ancient Greek: Παυσανίας; fl. c. 420 BC) was an ancient Athenian of the deme Kerameis, who was the lover of the poet Agathon. Although Pausanias is given a significant speaking part in Plato's Symposium, very little is known about him. Ancient anecdotes tend to address only his relationship with ...
Pausanias belonged to the Agiad dynasty and was the son of king Pleistoanax, born during a period of conflict against the other Spartan authorities and the Eurypontids—the other Spartan dynasty. His father was forced to go into exile after his first military campaign against Athens in 445 because he was accused of having taken a bribe from ...
Pausanias (Greek: Παυσανίας; fl. 5th century BC) was a native of Sicily, Magna Graecia, who belonged to the family of the Asclepiadae and whose father's name was Anchitus. He was a physician , and an eromenos [ 1 ] of the philosopher Empedocles , who dedicated his poem On Nature to him . [ 2 ]
Pleistoanax was the son of Pausanias, regent in the beginning of the reign of his nephew Pleistarchus (r. 480–459) until his murder by the ephors, possibly in 467/6, allegedly for Medism. [1] He belonged to the Agiad dynasty, one of the two royal families in Sparta (the other being the Eurypontids).
Prasiae or Prasiai (Ancient Greek: Πρασιαί), [1] [2] [3] or Prasia (Πρασία), [4] [5] also known as Brasiae or Brasiai (Βρασιαί), [6] was a town on the eastern coast of ancient Laconia, described by Pausanias as the farthest of the Eleuthero-Laconian places on this part of the coast, and as distant 200 stadia by sea from Cyphanta. [6]
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Historians know only that it happened before the disastrous earthquake of 464 BC. Thucydides here is the only one to implicate the helots: Pausanias speaks rather about Lacedaemonians who had been condemned to death. [59] Nor does the text allow us to conclude that this was a failed uprising of helots, only that there was an attempt at escape.